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1. Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with any brilliance of oratory or wise argument to announce to you the mystery of God.

1. When I came to you, brethren, I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God in lofty words or wisdom.

2. I was resolved that the only knowledge I would have while I was with you was knowledge of Jesus, and of him as the crucified Christ.

2. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

3. I came among you in weakness, in fear and great trembling

3. And I was with you in weakness and in much fear and trembling;

4. and what I spoke and proclaimed was not meant to convince by philosophical argument, but to demonstrate the convincing power of the Spirit,

4. and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5. so that your faith should depend not on human wisdom but on the power of God.

5. that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

6. But still, to those who have reached maturity, we do talk of a wisdom, not, it is true, a philosophy of this age or of the rulers of this age, who will not last long now.

6. Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.

7. It is of the mysterious wisdom of God that we talk, the wisdom that was hidden, which God predestined to be for our glory before the ages began.

7. But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.

8. None of the rulers of the age recognised it; for if they had recognised it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory;

8. None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9. but it is as scripture says: What no eye has seen and no ear has heard, what the mind of man cannot visualise; all that God has prepared for those who love him;

9. But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him,"

10. to us, though, God has given revelation through the Spirit, for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the depths of God.

10. God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

11. After all, is there anyone who knows the qualities of anyone except his own spirit, within him; and in the same way, nobody knows the qualities of God except the Spirit of God.

11. For what person knows a man's thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.

12. Now, the Spirit we have received is not the spirit of the world but God's own Spirit, so that we may understand the lavish gifts God has given us.

12. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God.

13. And these are what we speak of, not in the terms learnt from human philosophy, but in terms learnt from the Spirit, fitting spiritual language to spiritual things.

13. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit.

14. The natural person has no room for the gifts of God's Spirit; to him they are folly; he cannot recognise them, because their value can be assessed only in the Spirit.

14. The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

15. The spiritual person, on the other hand, can assess the value of everything, and that person's value cannot be assessed by anybody else.

15. The spiritual man judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one.

16. For: who has ever known the mind of the Lord? Who has ever been his adviser? But we are those who have the mind of Christ.

16. "For who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.



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